「FIVE STORIES PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO MISS
Trump Signs Coronavirus Bill Reviving Fund for Small-Business Loans
-New York Post
“President Trump on Friday signed a nearly half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill that replenishes money for small-business loans to prevent layoffs,” Steven Nelson and Ebony Bowden report. “The small-business program forgives loans if businesses with up to 500 employees, and in some cases more, don’t lay off workers.”
Rep. Andy Barr: Coronavirus — Congress, Make China Answer for Pandemic
-Fox News
“As we continue to ‘flatten the curve’ and gradually begin to re-open the economy, the American people deserve answers about how this contagion started, how it spread and how we can prevent something like this from ever happening again,” Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) writes. “The communists in Beijing put us all at risk.”
How the Media Completely Blew the Trump Ventilator Story
-National Review
“After nearly four years of unrelieved Trump hysteria in the media, it’s hard to rank the worst journalistic outrages,” Rich Lowry writes. But how the press misreported the story of America’s ventilator stockpile “belongs high on the list.” Last year, America produced 30,000 ventilators. This year, it will be about 200,000—and they’re already coming in.
MORE: California Governor says “Promise Made, Promise Kept” by President Trump on testing swabs
Trump Suspension of Immigration Over Coronavirus Will Protect Our Health, Jobs and Wages
-Fox News
“President Trump is acting properly and justifiably to temporarily suspend immigration to the U.S. for at least 60 days in the face of the coronavirus pandemic,” former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan writes. “The left cannot continue to demand social distancing and delaying the return to work for some, while at the same time supporting more people coming to the U.S. now.”
First Lady Sends Gifts to Hospitals Dealing with Coronavirus
-The Associated Press
“Melania Trump is sending blankets, caps and other gifts to hospitals in 10 states, including some hit hardest by the new coronavirus outbreak, for use by medical staff and children who are patients,” Darlene Superville reports. “Mrs. Trump met doctors and nurses at some of the hospitals during past visits to promote her youth program.” 」
America’s small businesses should never have been left waiting by House Democrats—but with President Trump’s signature today, more relief is on the way. The new law, signed just hours ago, will replenish the President’s small business loans program while also providing crucial support for America’s frontline medical workers. Specifically, the new agreement provides:
$320 billion in additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program
$75 billion for hospitals and healthcare providers to fight Coronavirus
$25 billion for ongoing testing across the country
The Paycheck Protection Program ensures that small businesses can continue to pay employees and cover costs during this global health crisis. After the program launched earlier this month, it proved so crucial a lifeline that its initial funding ran out in just 14 days. With today’s signing, millions of Americans will now stay on the payroll. “I want to thank Congress for answering my call to pass this critical funding,” President Trump said.
America’s 30 million small businesses employ nearly half of our nation’s private-sector workforce. As Americans stay home to slow the spread of Coronavirus, many of these small companies have been forced to temporarily shut down or cut back on work. Within the next 24 hours, President Trump will be sending more help their way. After unnecessary delay from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, Congress is finally replenishing President Trump’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Operated by the Small Business Administration, the PPP ensures that employers can continue to pay workers and cover costs during the global Coronavirus outbreak. The program proved essential for small businesses—so popular, in fact, that it ran through its funds in just 14 days. After pressure from President Trump, Congress reached a deal with the Administration to provide an additional $310 billion for the program, along with $75 billion for hospitals and $25 billion for testing. More relief for America’s small businesses can’t wait a moment longer. As story after story shows, these forgivable loans are the difference between survival and layoffs in communities across our country:
A Michigan bagel shop that survived the Great Depression and World War II was in trouble—but now can afford to keep its employees on payroll.
That’s just a snapshot of why this support matters. Small businesses power the American economy. The Paycheck Protection Program should never have run out of money—President Trump asked Congress to refill it 16 days ago, before funds dried up. There was no excuse for Democrats to stall for more partisan pork while American families wondered when their next paycheck would come. To the workers and small businesses who need this relief, President Trump is fighting for you. Tomorrow, his signature will right the wrongs of politicians who once again put their needs before your own.
台湾の中央通信社は、日本にいる台湾人ネチズンが最近、日本で“made in Taiwan”の刻印が付いた多くのマスクを見かけるが、これらのマスクの産地は中国で、中国によって発行された検査証明書も添付されていると伝えた。実際、これらのマスクは質が低く、生活で使用しても新型コロナウイルスを通さないことはできず、ましてや病院で使用することもできない。
実際、新型コロナウイルスの発生源については、中国人の医学研究者2名の共同執筆による The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirusという論文では、武漢市内の2つの研究所から漏出した可能性が高いことが指摘されている(参考:「失踪した中国人研究者の『消されたコロナ論文』衝撃の全訳を公開する」)。
The Senate passed funding yesterday to replenish President Trump’s Paycheck Protection Program, which offers forgivable loans to small businesses fighting to survive during the Coronavirus pandemic. “My administration has worked aggressively with Congress to negotiate this critical $428 billion funding package,” President Trump said last night. “We reached a deal that includes $382 billion in crucial small-business support to keep workers on the payroll.” The bill also includes $75 billion in hospital aid and $25 billion for testing efforts. President Trump urged the House to pass the deal quickly so he can sign it into law this week. Thousands of American jobs and small businesses depend on it. President Trump announces more help for minority communities fighting Coronavirus
The legislation passed by the Senate yesterday reserves $30 billion in loans for small financial institutions that serve minority and distressed communities. This support builds on the Trump Administration’s work to protect African-American, Hispanic-American, and minority workers that have been hit hard by Coronavirus.
Part of that work is ensuring sufficient testing options for these populations. In the past month alone, the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded over $1.4 billion to Community Health Centers—funding that is being used to address screening and testing needs, acquire medical supplies, and boost telehealth capacity in underserved areas.
The President also announced that he is directing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, led by HUD Secretary Ben Carson, to focus its efforts on supporting distressed communities impacted by the Coronavirus. As part of its work, the Council will identify what additional funding is needed from Congress to best support these areas.
Video of the day: Vice President Pence in Wisconsin
America is winning this war on Coronavirus because of all the hard work happening at the local level. On factory floors across our country, production has ramped up to get our healthcare workers everything they need to save lives.
Vice President Mike Pence traveled yesterday to Madison, Wisconsin, where he got a firsthand look at a GE Healthcare manufacturing facility. Thanks to workers like these, America is far ahead of the global curve when it comes to the availability of lifesaving ventilators: No American who has needed one during this crisis has been denied it.
“You have made a difference for America, and with your help, and with God’s help, we will someday soon put the Coronavirus in the past and put all of America back to work,” Vice President Pence said. 」
4/23希望之声<波兰航空遭中共拒入领空 首度直飞台湾 载运医疗援助物资=LOTポーランド航空は中共から領空通過を拒否される 初めて台湾に直航 医療援助物資を運ぶため>台湾は世界的な疫病流行に対し支援をし、「Taiwan can help」(台湾は助けることができる)は新たな展開を遂げ、ポーランド航空LOTが22日の今夜台湾に初飛行し、今夜に桃園国際空港に到着した。これはポーランド航空が初めて台湾に直行便を飛ばしたことになる。ただし、ポーランドのメディアによると、中国はこの飛行機が中国の領空を飛ぶことを許可していないため、飛行機は中国を迂回し、インドシナ半島を経由して直行して台湾に向かったため、到着予定時刻から2時間以上遅れた。
ポーランドのメディアは、台湾へ向かった最初のポーランドの飛行機はボーイング787-8で、使命は、台湾から寄付された医療物資をポーランドに運ぶことと報じた。台湾はヨーロッパ、アメリカ、その他の友好国に1,000万枚のマスクを寄付した。この「Taiwan can help」の人道物資の救援活動の中で、ポーランドは50万枚を受け取った。そのため、航空機はマスクやその他の医療物資をポーランドに持ち帰ると見られている。
As America wages war on the deadly Coronavirus, President Trump announced last night that he will temporarily suspend immigration into the United States. Nearly 80 percent of Americans support this common-sense measure to protect our country, according to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll. At a time when most Americans are discouraged from all nonessential travel within our borders, it is responsible and fair to limit travel across those borders, as well. The political class doesn’t do common sense, however. Democrat “leaders” such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tim Kaine joined CNN pundits in attacking the decision. They couldn’t make any case against it, of course: It’s tough to argue that borders should be open while American citizens are locked down. So they just made up insults instead. Sen. Warren accused the President of “racism” and “xenophobia”—exactly what Democrat leaders did when President Trump restricted travel from China in January. Democrats were wrong at the start of this crisis, and they’re wrong now. Unlike the left, President Trump will take every action necessary to protect the American people. Both lives and livelihoods are at stake. At a time when many people are out of work because of Coronavirus, it’s more important than ever to protect jobs for our citizens. Mass immigration risks hurting the wages of blue-collar workers, multiple studies show. As these Americans look to bounce back from the Coronavirus pandemic, our leaders must help them in every way possible. President Trump is doing it. There’s still time for Democrat leaders to join him. How the Media Completely Blew the Trump Ventilator Story
“After nearly four years of unrelieved Trump hysteria in the media, it’s hard to rank the worst journalistic outrages,” Rich Lowry writes for the National Review. But how the press misreported the story of America’s ventilator stockpile “belongs high on the list.” Last year, America produced a total of 30,000 ventilators. This year, the country will produce somewhere around 200,000—and the machines are already coming in. “By any measure, that’s a success, certainly compared with where we thought we’d be less than a month ago. If the media weren’t so devoted to gotcha idiocy, more people might know about it.” https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-response-ventilators-trump-administration-handled-potential-shortage-deftly/ 」
「America is winning its war on the Coronavirus. President Trump announced another milestone over the weekend: More than 4 million Americans have now been tested. “That’s a record anywhere in the world,” he said. The United States has now conducted more tests than France, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Austria, Australia, Sweden, and Canada—combined. https://twitter.com/i/status/1252270905658617860
President Trump’s response is unprecedented for another reason, too—one that most Americans won’t see covered in the news. “Throughout history, national emergencies have led to a more powerful and centralized federal government,” Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Christopher DeMuth writes in The Wall Street Journal. Until now. “For the first time in U.S. history, an administration is responding to a crisis with deregulation and decentralization,” he says. Here’s why. Career politicians, both in Washington and around the world, have one instinct during an emergency: to grab power. It’s rarely temporary, and it often has little to do with the situation at hand. Instead, politicians create more agencies and more red tape, claiming that Bigger Government will prevent the next great threat. The opposite happens. A slow, bureaucratic response globally made the Coronavirus worse. The World Health Organization, with its $2.4 billion annual budget, didn’t prepare the world for Coronavirus—it downplayed the risk while parroting claims from the Chinese Communist Party that the virus wasn’t spreading between humans. Elsewhere in the world, countries with government-run socialized medicine have been forced to ration care, often at the expense of older patients. In the United States, President Trump moved to slash red tape quickly, eliminating outdated rules and bureaucracy around testing, treatments, telemedicine, and more to speed up our nationwide response to his standards. President Trump knows that Washington works best when it leads, not controls. His priority is making sure that every state, locality, and frontline worker has the resources needed to fight this virus. Whether it’s securing more ventilators or rapidly expanding testing, he’s brought in the full power of America’s best-on-Earth private sector to help. The results show that America is unstoppable when it works together. Closely watched areas such as New York, Detroit, and New Orleans are stabilizing and seeing progress. Nationwide, the latest data suggests that America is past its peak for new cases—and on track to see far fewer deaths than even the most optimistic models once projected. The President knows who to thank for winning this war: you. Our nation’s doctors, nurses, innovators, essential workers, and patriotic citizens are the best in the world. “The American people have done a hell of a job,” he says. https://twitter.com/i/status/1252250397856710661
これが、クオモ知事が“Stay at Home”、また“New York on Pause(ニューヨークでは移動をしない)”を宣言した理由である。公共交通機関でオフィスや学校まで、長い時間をかけて満員電車に乗るという環境は東京も同じなので、このニューヨークのやり方を東京が模倣することは重要だったと言える。
「FIVE STORIES PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO MISS
Donald Trump: We Are Reopening America ‘One Careful Step at a Time’
-Breitbart
“President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new guidelines for reopening America after the peak of the coronavirus crisis,” Charlie Spiering reports. “We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation of our economy again in a safe and structured and a very responsible fashion,” the President said of his three-phase plan.
Democrats Need to Stop Holding Small-Business Help Hostage
-New York Post
“It’s beyond tragic: The loan program to aid small businesses hit by lockdowns is [now] out of cash, yet Democrats still refuse to OK new funds unless their unrelated demands are met,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “If small-business closures spike, costing countless workers their jobs, Americans shouldn’t forget the Dems’ cynicism.”
‘Experience of a Lifetime:’ Truck Driver Reacts to Being Saluted by Trump at White House
-Fox News
President Trump celebrated American truckers on Thursday for their work keeping our country supplied during the Coronavirus, Joshua Nelson reports. “Getting the honor and respect that I think the 3.5 million truck drivers deserve was just heartwarming because it was not personally me, it’s all of us doing our jobs,” Stephen Richardson said.
Trump Puts U.S. Public Diplomacy on Notice
-The National Interest
U.S. public broadcasting “has come in for extensive criticism for, among other things, skewed priorities in its outreach to Iran, internal corruption and mismanagement, and a failure to provide much-needed political balance in its reporting on hostile regimes,” Ilan Berman writes. Now, “the White House seems prepared to do something about it.”
We Have Liftoff: Space Force Gets its First Cadets From the Air Force Academy as it Charts the Future of Space Ops
-Washington Examiner
“The United States Space Force will welcome more than 85 newly commissioned second lieutenants, who graduate from the Air Force Academy tomorrow,” Jamie McIntyre reports. The historic event will mark “the graduation of the first cadets to earn their degrees in space operations.” 」
「“For seven long days, Democrats have been blocking a $250 billion refill for the Paycheck Protection Program, and on Thursday morning the loan fund finally ran out of money . . . The longer Democrats refuse to provide financing for small businesses after government cut off their revenue, the more Americans will have every right to conclude that Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer are responsible for the worsening economic destruction,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.
“Globalists are cringing, but Trump is right. The World Health Organization failed–big time–in alerting the world to the seriousness of what began as an isolated outbreak of the new respiratory disease COVID-19 in China,” Rebecca Grant writes in Fox News.